The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-01-14


The lord lieutenant OF Ireland, while
decl ming 10 aha rentals on has es-
IL es in the c0un y Down. offers 20 sell
his teraI,s Their hOidings at re.isona-
Die rates.
Mr.. Phelan, consul general of the
United states at Halifax, predicts a
LIVELY time when Inc Dominlon pro,
tectlve fishery fleet CONTINGENCIES OPP
eratlOns.
In The Federal court at st. LOUIS. on
u plea OF guilty.. JOS phi Ii. Wilc was
sentenced TO hIee Years in the peni-
Tertiary for cOun,erfetlng Brazilian
bank notes.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul road has secured right of way
INTO Kansas City from the north. IN
addi ION 10 entrance over the belt line
on the south.
The ocean shore along the South
Carolina coast is covered with dead
fish to the depth OF one loot. which is
the result, 1t rs thought, OF some vol
canic Il sturbance.
The legislature of Connec icut elect
ed Il. &. Lounsbury governor and
JamesL. Howard lieutenant governor.
They were the Republican cand dates
at the late election.
A Lutheran clergyman of Oshkosh
devoted his last sermon 10 tn XII ghLs
OF Labor. and warned the members OF
his church that they will be expelled if
they cling to the order.
Buffalo" Miller predicts the col
lapse OF the whisky pool before MAY,
because of Kentucky competition and
the assessment OF cents per bushel 10
keep certain distillerles closed.
Oshkosh. u son Of the Clergyman as
sassinated some months ago III Sioux
City, has abandoned lhe law and ac-
copied call to a Methodist pulpit.
The San Fr. ncisco produce exchange
ends the stock of wheat in the state
and OH boarG vessels in the harbor to
be 100000 tons, OF which 25J.OJO tons
are available for shipment 10 Europe.
An agent for European purchasers
has paid into the treasury of Texas
$l47, 200 for lands in Dickens and Cara
counties, in the Panhandle. The
money goes to the permanent school
fund.
j. N. Matthews, proprietor OF the
Buffalo Express. was arrested and held
in bonds to answer the charge of crimi-
nal libel preferred by Colonel John
Byrne, the owner of detective
agency.
The Henry Clay Mine. the most ex-
tensive property of the Reading Rail
road and employing 1900 men, is on
fire. Frequent gas explosions are re-
ported and four men have been severe
ly burned.
DR.. William Perry, the oldest grad
uate of Harvard college, and the last
survivor of FultOn's steamboat ride
down the Hudson river, expired Tues
day at Exeter, New Hampshire, at the
age of SO.
1t is understood that negotiations
with China for such modification OF
the treaty as to entirely prevent the
introduction of cody labor into the
United States have just been success
fully concluded.
Robert McGeorge, of LusOn Valley.
pennsylvania, who usually carries
large amount Of money on his person,
was shot through the head and breast
by three masked robbers in the pres
ence Of his family.
The surrogate at Buffalo decided to
admit to probate the will of the late
Frank Tracy, and virtually made the
contestants bear their own costs. The
only child was cut off with 500, 600,
Alice Oates, the well-known comic
the residence of her husband at Phlla-
delphia. She had wasted away greatly
under painful complication of dis
eases, and death came as welcome re-
lief.
A machine which is likely to revOlu-
tionize the method of making nails
has been perfected by Carver Trout
and Philip Leonard, of Sharon, Penn
sylvania, who propose to build a large
factory either in Chicago or Indian
apolis.
The convicts of the New Jersey pen
itentiary were found with jewelers.
saws, which had been Struggled in to
them in plugs of tobacco. They were
saving the bars preparatory to q
wholesale escape when the plot was
discovered.
The strike of cOal-handlers at east
ern shipping points has caused sus-
pension of mining in all collieries de-
pendent on the Lehigh Valley road for
cars. There is only two weeks supply
at Providence and various cities in
New England.
John Roach, the famous ship-build-
er, died Monday morning, in New
Y 0rk, In his Seventy-nlnth year, from
cancer. When q lad Of l6 he came
from Ireland, without friends or CAPT.
tai. Before his failure he employed
three thousand men.
The members Of the troublesome st.
Albertus' church, in Detroit, recently
contributed $1,000 with which to send
two Poles to Rome to confer with the
pope. The delegates were last heard
from at Chicago, whence they wrote
back for $500 more each.
President Cleveland received call
from young man whom he recently
pardoned from penitentiary. = who
desired to express his gratitude and
offer assurances Of future good con-
duct. He was treated with courtesy
and given encouragement.
In libel suit brought against q Chi
cago newspaper by Connecticut pat
ent lawyer, asking $4,000 damages for
being pronounced crank, the defend
ant filed demurrer. giving the dlction-
airy definition of crank as machinery
having circular motion.
A leak in a natural-gas main at
Youngstown. o., caused an explosion
in the new Andrews block, OH Soul